"More than nine months have passed since Microsoft terminated all support for Windows XP. Even though many government agencies successfully made the transition to Windows 7, it's already time for IT managers to start planning for the next operating system migration, as mainstream support for Windows 7 just ended on Jan. 13.

Even though Microsoft will continue to provide security patches until Jan. 14, 2020, there's no time like the present to start planning ahead to protect your infrastructure..."
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Oracle Java ME Embedded 8.1 is live on OTN. This release is an update of Oracle Java ME Embedded 8, including new platforms and features. Application development is supported through the Oracle Java ME SDK 8.1.

Visit the Java ME documentation portal to study the latest versions of the Release Notes and Getting Started Guides for the following supported platforms:

Andrew writes, "This blog will detail how to create a simple Web Application (Web App) on a Windows 7 64 bit system and deploy it to a GlassFish 4.0 server. The web app will be kept simple, so as to keep the focus of the tutorial on the concepts; as such, the web app will provide a web page prompting the user to enter their name and date of birth, before loading another page that repeats their name back at them with their age. The blog will cover how to set up, code, and deploy the web app using the NetBeans IDE, as well as how to manually deploy it using the Windows command prompt. It should be noted that unless stated otherwise, any additional settings that can be changed but are not noted in the guide should be left as their default..."
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.2, a new major release targeted to early adopters and another significant step forward for the best free office suite ever. LibreOffice 4.2 features a large number of performance and interoperability improvements targeted to users of all kinds, but particularly appealing for power and enterprise users. In addition, it is better integrated with Microsoft Windows.

Calc has gone through the largest code refactoring ever, giving major performance wins for big data (especially when calculating cell values, and importing large and complex XLSX spreadsheets), while an optional new formula interpreter enables massively parallel calculation of formula cells using the GPU via OpenCL. The latter works best with a Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) such as the new AMD Kaveri APU.
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VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.